Family origins in counties Cavan and Antrim? Anyone else with Irish roots?  

I know what you mean about the head into the wall syndromes. There are families that readily share their heritage (skeletons and all) and there are families that won't tell you anything. I have found that acquiring family Bibles, birth certificates, marriage licenses, certificates of death, etc. can get you around some of those tight lipped relatives in some cases. Possibly even inquiring with cousins, aunts and uncles can bring a little light onto the Logans in Ireland for you. Let me know if I can be of help. Genealogy is my favorite hobby.

Unfortunately there is only a handful of "Logans" around here, and I know not where they live. I guess I will have to pick my mom's brain as I'm sure she'd like to connect with them too.

I've done some poking around for the Yoder half of my maternal grandparents and I only find that name in German records.

I have Yoder ancestors - they are German and Mennonite/Amish. They remain predominant in the Amish/Mennonite communities in America today. This is an easy line to research if in fact your German Yoder's joined the Mennonite movement in immigration to North America as their family heritage is sacredly kept and maintained. I might be of some help to you there more than the Logans. Let me know how your research progresses!! God Bless You!!

Ah yes the Irish dilemma - there are many records destroyed and missing in Ireland's archives due to religious and political wars. I wish you the best in sorting through the mire of information and data . . . I fortunately have not had this problem so far, though I have researched enough to know that it's impossible not to come across it at some point as there is a reported gap in relatively all Irish records sometime in the 1100s when churches were being destroyed at a rapid rate. Keep me posted on your progress!!

We've run into that and also the problems of the family not always being honest about things. You know move to a new area and change the last name slightly or say they were married when they weren't. Things like that. Makes it very difficult but we are trying.

Yes, my families lines did a lot of changing and there are a lot of skeletons we have unearthed in our searches . . . it's all part of the fun of genealogy!! Let me know if there is anything I might be able to help with . . . I don't know that I can, but until you ask we'll never know (if you run into a road block - sometimes different eyes might see a way through).

Thanks for the offer. I know how much fun it is when dealing with geneology. To be honest not sure where my mom is at with it at the moment. she keeps running into problems due to the last name, Deering. Here in the states it could be Dering, Dearing, Derring and so on. Let alone some that change their name, go by middle names and then you have the fact that it's a very common last name. It's not easy.

I fully appreciate your situation . . . good luck and by all means keep me posted!!